Threat report brings arrest

Updated 9:47 pm, Friday, October 5, 2012

EAST GREENBUSH — A local nursing home found itself with visitor problems again after a Colonie man was arrested for attacking two employees and making threats, town police said Friday.

Gerhard J. Godinez, 47, of Campus View Drive, was arrested Tuesday after Evergreen Commons staff called 911. They reported Godinez had become violent, struck two staff members and threw objects at them, police said.

Officers found Godinez in the nursing home on Luther Road and arrested him on harassment charges.

Godinez was arrested again on Thursday for calling a state Department of Health hot line to say he would do "real bad" harm to the staff, police said. He was charged with third-degree falsely reporting an incident.

Godinez was arraigned Thursday before East Greenbush Town Justice Mary Pat Donnelly, who issued a court order barring him from the nursing home. He will return to court later this month.

It was the second time in about a month that Evergreen Commons was the scene of an incident involving a visitor.

On Aug. 31, Wallace Wheeler, 68, of Castleton, was arrested for felony sexual abuse and forcible touching, a misdemeanor, for kissing a 98-year-old woman and grabbing one of her breasts, police said.